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H. BAINES.

CATTLE GAR; No. 268,604. Patented Dec. 5, 1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

H GH BAINES, on TORONTO, oNrAaIo, CANADA.

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SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 268,604, dated December 5 1882.

Application filed November I, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HUGH BAINES, engineer, of the city of Toronto, in the'county of York, Province of Ontario, in the Dominion of Canada, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cattle-Oars, of which the following .is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in that class of cattle or stock cars in which the sides of the car are provided with openings through which the cattle can extend their i The objects of the invention are accom 'plished by the construction and arrangement of parts illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a car, showing the openings made by the slats being lowered along the side and across the doorway.

. Fig. 2 is a transverse section ofthe same, showing on one side the laths raised to cover the openings; also, the fulcrum-boards on top of the car, together with an end view of one of the copes with running-board under the roof of car, and also one of the portable boards in position across the car.

In Fig. 1, A A are some of the openings. B B arethe longitudinal united slats extending along the length of the car, and constituting the door for opening and closing the side openings, A. D D are the lowering and lifting rods attached to the slats B B and working in the guides E E. G G are the guides in which the slats B B work, although I do not bind myself to lift the slats in this particular way, as I may lift them by means of chains or .ropes attached to the roof of the car on rollers.

Fig. 2, A represents the car open on one side, the slats B being lowered, so that cattle may put out their heads. At A the slats are shown drawn up, closing the openings. D D are the rods operating the same, as described in Fig.1. F F are boards to which the liftingrods are attached. G shows one of mycopes;

H, the doorway. These copes I may make of sufficient size so that the drover may sit therein at leisure. J is a running-board hung so that the drover can pass from end to end of the car immediately below the root. K K are grooved strips nailed or secured to the sides of the car. L is a loose board, which is made to slide in the grooves. the event of any of the animals becoming sick orlame, thus forming a stall in the carand prev venting other animals from crowding upon it. When board L. is not in use for this purpose it is carried on or in any convenient part of the car. v y

The series of united slats B, which constitute the vertically-sliding door, are arranged in suitable guideways extending down the sides of the car, adjacent to the bottom thereof, in such manner that when the side openings, A, are to be uncovered or opened the slats can be dropped below the said openings, as shown at B, Fig 2, while if the side openings, A, are to be covered or closed the slats are elevated to the position shown at the left side of Fig. 2. Thislifting and lowering of the slats is conveniently and quickly accomplished from the top or roof of the car, through the medium of the rods D. It is obvious that chains could be substituted for the rods without changing the invention, and any device provided for holding the rods or chains to retain the slats in their elevated position.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. The combination, with a stockcar having a series of side openings arranged throughout the length thereof at both sides, and with a door at the inlet and exit opening, of vertical guides extending downward below the side openings, and also arranged at the lower portious of the doorway, and sections of united slats B B, forming portions of the inclosing walls of the car, and arranged alon g the same and in the doorway thereof, and mechanism for dropping the slats together or in sections below the said side openings to open the same, substantially as shown and described.

2. A stock-car provided with the cope H and the running-board J, located'inside the car under the roof in relation to the cope, substantially as and for the purpose described.

Witnesses: HUGH BAINES.

MATT. TAYLOR, JAS. HowARD.

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